Kent Vander Velden
Discretionary Analyst at Private Office
Des Moines, Iowa, United States
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Top SchoolKent Vander Velden is a multidisciplinary scientist-engineer with 12 years of experience building scientific instrumentation, computer vision, and deep learning systems, now serving as a Discretionary Analyst for a private office. He founded and operates Confluence R&D, delivering end-to-end prototypes that merge hardware, embedded sensing, and full-stack software for research and commercial applications. His background spans industry and academia—PhD in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology—and includes leading imaging and data systems at DuPont Pioneer and innovative AR/VR-enabled CNC inspection tools. Comfortable moving from low-level geometry and rendering work to modern ML pipelines, he blends rigorous research skills with hands-on mechanical and electrical design. Based in Des Moines, he describes himself as a “gentleman scientist,” reflecting a curiosity-driven approach to practical, tightly integrated scientific systems.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, PhD Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at Iowa State University
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Github Skills (56)
associative10
visualization10
sony10
cnc-machine10
libgphoto210
3d-printer10
camera10
machine-vision10
dslr10
malware-detection10
eos10
stepper10
cpp10
reverse-engineering10
controller9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kentavv/Albert
Feb 2014 - Jan 2021
Albert is used to study new non-associative algebras. This repository contains performance updates to the original code.
Contributions:1 release, 475 commits, 23 PRs in 7 years
linear-algebrandarrayfactorizationupdatesalbert
kentavv/haimer_probe
Sep 2019 - Oct 2019
Automate LinuxCNC with machine vision by detecting and probing holes while reading the dial of a Haimer 3D Sensor
Contributions:152 commits, 4 PRs, 98 pushes in 29 days
3dmachine-visionpythonlinuxcnclinuxcnc-probe
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